Pier Paolo Pasolini (March 5, 1922 – November 2, 1975) was an Italian film director, poet, writer, and intellectual. Pasolini distinguished himself as a poet, journalist, philosopher, linguist, novelist, playwright, filmmaker, newspaper and magazine columnist, actor, painter and political figure. He demonstrated a unique and extraordinary cultural versatility, becoming a highly controversial figure in the process.

KNOWN FOR

La Dolce Vita
1960
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
1976
The Canterbury Tales
1972
Quelli che il cinema
2025
Nights of Cabiria
1957
The Gospel According to St. Matthew
1965
Arabian Nights
1974
The Decameron
1971
Oedipus Rex
1967
Theorem
1968
Woman of the River
1954
Mamma Roma
1962

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
67
Directing
30
Writing
66
Editing
3
Sound
1
Crew
2
2026
Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2025
Quelli che il cinema
as Self
2024
imagenaction
as Archive footage (voice)
2023
Pier Paolo Pasolini - Una visione nuova
as Self
2022
Pier Paolo Pasolini - Agnès Varda - New York - 1967
as Self
2021
The Treasure of His Youth: The Photographs of Paolo Di Paolo
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2021
Vor mir der Süden
2021
Morceaux de Cannes
2020
In a Future April: The Young Pasolini
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2020
L’Ultima Partita di Pasolini
2019
Notarangelo the Soul Hunter
as Self (archive footage)
2019
Once Upon a Time: Tonino Delli Colli, Cinematographer
as Himself
2018
Pier Paolo Pasolini: An Italian Journey
as Self (archive footage)
2016
The Isle of Medea
as Self (archive footage)
2015
Pasolini maestro corsaro
2015
Pier Paolo Pasolini e i confini - Memorie a est del corsaro del novecento
2015
Pasolini - Il corpo e la voce
2014
Pasolini, la passion de Rome
as Self (archive footage)
2013
Io sono nata viaggiando
as Self (archive footage)
2012
Pasolini's Last Words
as Self (archive)
2009
The Ashes of Pasolini
as Self
2008
La rabbia 1, la rabbia 2, la rabbia 3... l'Arabia
2008
Il falso bugiardo
as Self (archive footage)
2007
Callas Assoluta
as Self (archive footage)
2006
Pasolini prossimo nostro
as Se stesso
2006
Pasolini and the Secret Humiliation of Chaucer
as Interviewee (archive)
2006
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2005
Via Pasolini
as Interviewee
2005
Salò, l’ultimo film di Pier Paolo Pasolini
2005
Der Sanfte Radikale
as himself (archive footage)
2004
Visioni della Medea (tracce di un film sognato)
2002
Salò: Yesterday and Today
2002
Bernardo Bertolucci: What Is the Purpose of Cinema?
as Self (archive footage)
2000
Pasolini, el poeta en la playa
as Archive footage
2000
Federico Fellini's Autobiography
as Self (archive footage)
2000
Arruso
as Sé stesso (Materiale d'archivio)
1998
Reunion; Salo
as Himself (Archive)
1997
Fioretti de Pier Paolo Pasolini 1922/1975
as Lui-même
1995
Non al denaro non all'amore né al cielo
1994
The Ashes of Pasolini
1985
Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
as Self
1981
Whoever Says the Truth Shall Die
as Self- archive footage
1980
My Name Is Anna Magnani
as Self (archive footage)
1976
Pier Paolo Pasolini : vivre et encore plus
as Lui-même
1975
Notes Towards an African Orestes
as Self (uncredited)
1975
Backstage on the Set of Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
as Self
1974
The Walls of Sana'a
as Narrator (voice)
1974
Pasolini and the Form of the City
as Himself
1972
The Canterbury Tales
as Geoffrey Chaucer
1972
S.P.Q.R.
1971
The Decameron
as Allievo di Giotto
1971
Pier Paolo Pasolini: A Film Maker's Life
as Self
1969
Pasolini on 'Porcile'
as Self
1968
Notes for a Film in India
as Self
1967
Cinéma et Réalité
as Self
1967
Kill and Pray
as Father Juan
1967
Oedipus Rex
as High Priest (uncredited)
1967
Pasolini Interviews: Ezra Pound
as Himself
1967
Pier Paolo Pasolini: Primo piano. Personaggi e problemi dell'Italia d'oggi
as Himself
1966
Notes from a Critofilm
1966
Pasolini l'Enragé
1966
Cinéastes de notre temps : Pier Paolo Pasolini
as himself
1965
Scouting in Palestine
as Self (uncredited)
1965
Love Meetings
as Self - Interviewer (uncredited)
1960
The Hunchback
as Monco
Volgar Eloquio
as self
Sfuge (apres Varda)
as Self